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must redeem his character before you resign 

 him, so after sweeping smoothly over the 

 gorsed hurdles again, you take him well by 

 the head, and put him at a slightly higher 

 gate than the one he has already negotiated. 

 Again he fails you not. Clearly this horse 

 is good at timber. One must pass over 

 that objection to cold water. After all, we 

 share the idiosyncrasy ourselves — unless it is 

 labelled "for outward application only." He 

 moves like a workman, too ; not quite such 

 a pleasant hack, perhaps, as he looked when 

 ridden by the crafty Tom. He shakes one 

 about rather, from the very fact of his great 

 hind leverage. Well, we can't go to Bir- 

 mingham and get horses made for us, neither 

 can we be measured for the exact thing that 

 suits. We will just see what Nemo is asking 

 for him. 



But Mr. Nemo is much too good a man of 

 business to let a customer stand and cool 

 down under the shivering influence of " chill 

 October's " raw and nipping breezes. You 

 have only got as far as " Well, Mr. Nemo, 



